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The first president who took official notice of Hanukkah was one of the Jewish community's least-favorite occupants of the White House, Jimmy Carter. In 1979, he ended 100 days of self-imposed seclusion over the Iran hostage crisis by walking to Lafayette Park, lighting the new "National Menorah" erected there by Chabad-Lubavitch, and delivering brief remarks.

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